History of Cass County, Indiana, from its earliest settlement to the present time; with Biographical Sketches and Reference to Biographies, Volume I, Part 2

Author: Powell, Jehu Z., 1848- [from old catalog] ed
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago and New York. The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 763


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Bethlehem Methodist Episcopal church, 487


Bethlehem Methodist Episcopal church cemetery, 490 Bethlehem Presbyterian church, 487


Bethlehem Presbyterian church (view), 488 Bethlehem Presbyterian cemetery, 491


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Bethlehem township-mention, 10, 63,


64, 477; location of, 477; first set- tlement, 477; land entries, 479; or- ganization, 479; pioneer life, 479; wild animals and game, 481; roads, 481; towns, 482; incidents and accidents, 484; schools, 484; churches, 486; ceme- teries, 490; physicians, 493; sketches of old pioneers, 495; reference biog- raphies, 498 Bibliography, vi Bicycle age, 205


Biddle, . Horace P., 107; portrait, 108; 111, 114, 231, 369.


Big Indian creek, 572 Big Leg, John Baptiste, 32


Bingaman, William H., 1053


Binns, Oliver H., 1134


Bird, Harvey O., 871


Bird, Leroy F., 990


Birds, 21


Birds of today, 22


Bishop, Claude C., 952


Bishop, George W., 917 Black Ben, 320


Blackburn, Ira, 970


Black Hawk, 127


Black Hawk's War, 127


Black private graveyard, 493 Blakemore, George W., 114


. Blind asylum, 6 Bliss, Andrew D., 1057


Bliss, George P., 875 Bliss, William O., 1054 "Blue Ball" church, 707


Blue Ribbon, 224 Boerger, Frederick N., 1195 Bolton, Essie, 1072 Bookwalter cemetery, 672


"Bon Ton," The, 266


Boone township-mention, 10, 64, 499; location, 499; first settlers, 499; or- ganization, 500; land entries, 500; roads, 500; industries, 501; towns, 502; banks, 503; physicians, 505; newspapers, 505; lodges and societies, 508; schools, 509; churches, 511; trustees, 511; cemeteries, 516; public officials, 517; reference biographies, 517


. Bowen, A. T. & Company, 367


Bowyer, Adelbert C., 856 Bowyer, John M., 861 Boyer, Arthur S., 1165


Boyer, Stephen B., 1172


Boy Scouts, 135 Bradford divison of the Panhandle, 201 Brandt, Albert O., 658, 883


Brandt, Charles A., 883 Bridge City Candy Company, 353 Bridges, 207 Briggs, Willard, 1025


Bringhurst, Col. Thomas H., portrait, 150


Broadway Looking West from Sixth Street, 1911 (view), 342


Broadway Methodist Episcopal church, 427


Broadway or Second Presbyterian church, 443


Brown individual graves, 535 Brown, William L., 1204 Brownlee, John, 109


Bruner cemetery, 710


Buchanan, Alexander M., 745 Buchanan, James, 1117 Buchanan, James M., 1116 "Burial of the Beautiful, " 234 Burket, George W., 1110 Burket private burial ground, 626 Burkit, Harry E., 752 Burkit, William P., 889 Burkhart, George W., 830 Burley, Merritt W., 1163 Burnette, Andrew, 783 Burnette, John H., 784


Burrows, Martin V., 1008 Burrows, Willard, 1083


Burrows, William O., 1005


Burton, John J., 948


Business men, 294 Butler, Warren J., 726


Butler private cemetery, 711


Butler University, 5


Butter-Nut breast pins, 186


Butz, Bruce E., 1145


Cady, Nelson, 836 Callender, Marion E., 1064


Campbell, Benjamin F., 1060


Campbell, Clayton C., 949


Campbell, Dugal, 1059


Campaigns of 1860 to 1876, 277


Campaign of 1880, 279


Campaigns, 1884 to 1912, 280


Canal boat lost, 314 Cann, George W., 753 Capitol of the new state, 3


Captain Tipton's reply, 130


Capt. Thos. S. Dunn's Company, 137 Capt. Spier S. Tipton's Company of United States Mounted Riflemen, 132


Carpenter, Charles D., 1150


Carson, Daniel R., 1078 Carson, John M., 774


Carson, William, 1077


Carter private cemetery, 534


Casparis Stone Company, 357


Cass, Gen. Lewis, 57


Cass County, Geography of, 9; location of, 9; geology of, 12; archaeology of, 23; organization of, 57


Cass county infirmary cemetery, 535 Cass county military companies, 159 Cass county's only lake, 9 1


Cass county's dead in Civil war, 178


Cass county painters and artists, 252


Cass County Historical Society, 126, 402


Cass County Horticultural Society, 88 Cass County Medical Society, 405 Cassville, 651


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Catholic societies, 398


Catholic Benevolent Legion, 399 Catholic Knights of America, 398 Catholic Order of Foresters, 399


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Causes of increasing floods, 305


Cedar Island legend, 313


Cemeteries of Logansport and Eel town- ship, 443


Center Presbyterian church, 622


Chambers, Charles B., 1016


Chamberlain, Alex, 218


Chamberlain Lewis, 116


Chapultapec, 674


Charcoal industry, 663


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Chase, Charles D., 736 Chase, Dudley H., 109, 118, 735 Chase, Henry, 107 Cheney, James, 982


Chicago Life Saving Boat on Broadway and Third street, Logansport, March 26, 1913 (view), 303 .


Chief of the fire department, 392 Chilcott, John R., 1200 Chilcott, Amos, 1200 Chippewa township, 63 "Christian Call, " 266


Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, Dowie church, 442 Christian church, 431, 513 Christian Science church, 439 "Chronicle, " 266


Churches, 420, 467, 486, 511, 681, 701 Church of the Brethren (Dunkards), 440 Church of Christ, 432 Church of God, 433


Churches of Logansport, 420


Circleville, 698


Circuit court, organization of, 98; second term of, 99; third term of, 100; judges of, 76, 106


Citizens meeting, 138 City attorneys, 387 City building, 375


City clerks or recorders, 387


City civil engineers, 392


City directories, 229


City marshal or high constable, 392 City treasurers, 387


City National Bank, 366


Civil divisions, 10


Courts, law and lawyers, 98


Clary, Daniel W., 936 Clary, Jacob W., 945 Clary, John W., 1027 Clary, Luye J., 942


Cragun, Sylvester S., 914 Craig, Joseph S., 963 Craig, William D., 964 Crain family burial place, 711


Crain, Joseph E., 908


Crawford, I. N., 962


Crawford, Jane, 320


Creeks, 9 -


Cripe, Edgar C., 1148


Crittenden, 567


Crockett, Benjamin F., 1127


Crockett, Henry A., 926


Crockett, John S., 864


Crooked Creek Baptist church, 580


Crooked Creek Baptist cemetery, 584


Crooked Creek Christian (New Light) church, 620 Crooked Creek Christian cemetery, 626


Crossroads M. E. church, Lake McKen- dree chapel, 681 Cuba, 712 Culver Military Academy, 6


Cumberland Presbyterian chapel, 531 Cuppy burial ground, 690 Curious insects, 316 Current miscellaneous societies and clubs, 398 Curveton, 631 Custer, George A., 910


Clymers cemetery, 545


Clymers Methodist Episcopal church, 544 Clubs, 393 Cogley, William R., 786 Coldest seasons, 295 "College News," 266 Colonels, 291 Collett, Marcus W., 1166


Daggett, Charles, 1111 "Daily Journal,'' 264 "Daily Reporter, " 270 Dairy and live stock interests, 88


Columbia Brewing Company, 350 Commissioners, 79


Commissioners' Districts, 62 Common Pleas court, 104 Common school fund, 89


Company D, Ninth Indiana Infantry, 141


Company K, Ninth Indiana Infantry, 141


Company K of Ninth entertained, 162 Company B, Fifty-fifth Regiment, 152 Concord cemetery, 585


Concord Presbyterian church, 579


Concordia College, 6 Congressmen, 291 Conn, Andrew J., 1048 Connor family burial ground, 492, 647 Conrad, George W., 978


Consolidation of schools, 92


Cook, Charles N., 738


Cook, David W., 775


Corinth Brethren in Christ, 470


Cornell, J. Frank, 1107


Coroners, 79 Cost, John W., 993


Cotner, John, 1200


Cottonwood Flouring Mills, 662 Councilmen, 388


Country Club of Logansport, 397 Country Fiddler, 52


Country Taverns, 220


Countryman, William E., 1093


County Superintendents, 94


Court Park, 376


Court House, 67


Court House, Logansport (view), 68


Courthouse square in 1837, 314 Court of conciliation, 105


Court of Honor, 397


Clay township-mention, 10, 63, 65, 518; location, 518; early settlement, 518; land entries, 519; old mills and indus- tries, 520; towns, 524; incidents and accidents, 525; physicians, 526; schools, 527; churches, 529; ceme- teries, 532; reference biographies, 532 Clerks, 76 Clerks of the state supreme court, 293 Cline, John W., 1052


Clinton township-mention, 10, 63, 65, 537; boundaries, 537; first settlers, 537; organization, 538; towns, 539; schools, 542; churches, 544; ceme- teries, 547; physicans, 557; roads, 552; early industries and old mills, 552; reference biographires, 553 Closson, Homer, 746 Clymer, George, 1199 Clymer, William, 1199 Clymers, 539 Clymers incidents, 540


.Daniels, Elmer S., 118 Darland, William R., 1108


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Daughters of Liberty, 397 Davis Bridge, 208 Davis, Frank, 987 Davis, George, 986 Davis, Otha A., 1009 Day, Frank, 1106 Deacon, 567 Deacon, William R., 991 Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 6 Death of Lieutenant Wimer, 133 Decker, John T., 860 Dedication, iii


Deer Creek township-mention 10, 64, 66, 554; early history and settlement 554; organization, 555; industries, 555; roads, 556; churches, 557; ceme- teries, 562; physicians, 565; schools, 566; towns and postoffices, 567; trus- tees, 567; lodges, 569; miscellaneous incidents, 570; reference biographies, 571


Eleventh Indiana Regiment, 160


Elliott, Ambrose, 950 Elliott, Jehu T., 825


Elliott, Joseph M., 1183 Elliott, J. T., Company, 344


Elliott, Robert M., 805


Elliott, Willard, 824


Emanuel Evangelical church, 514


Empire Mills, now known as Uhl's Mill, 213 Enyart, Charles A., 1136


Enyart, William B., 802


Epitome of Indiana History, 1


Etnire, John M., 755 Evans, Thomas J., 113


"Evening News, " 267


Ewing, Charles W., 106


Examiners, 94


Expenses for all the High Schools in Cass county in 1910, 92 Explanatory, V


Delaplane, James, 1143


DeLawter, Jacob W., 1140


Democratic Party, 273


Farmers and Merchants Bank, 367


Farmers' Grange, 570


Farming implements crude, 82


Farquhar, Dr. Uriah, 69


Father Mathew Catholic Total Ab- stinence Society, 224


Fauna, 21


Fausler, Michael D., 118


Federal judges, 292


Federal officers, 293


Dillon, John P., 114


Federal Party, 273


Disbanded orders, 401


Fees for ferrying across the rivers, 59 Feltis, William H., 1050


Dodt, John, 1070 Domestic Knitting Company, 351 Domestic remedies, 409


Doran, DeWitt, 1175


Ferguson, Oscar B., 872


Ferguson, Richard, 1201


Fernald's saw mill, 357


Drama and dramatists, 260 Dress of the pioneer, 49


Fickle, David D., 721


Fickle, Henderson, 1102


Fidler, Harry, 896


Fifth Cavalry, Ninetieth Indiana, 166


Fifty-first Indiana Regiment, 163 Fifty-fifth Indiana Regiment, 163


Fifty-eighth Indiana Regiment, 163


Fifty-ninth Indiana Regiment, 163


Fighting Parson, A, 186


Fike, Otto, 920 Finances of the county, 75 Financial and official, 75 Finley, John, 46


First aerial mail carrier, 321


First Arbor Day in Indiana, 93


First bank in Logansport, 364 First case tried, 100


First Cass County Fair, 85


First church organ, 257 First coinage, 361


First county jail, 105


First county physician, 69


First court house, 68


First courtroom, 105


First daily paper in Cass county, 265


First doctor in Indiana, 404


First doctor in Logansport, 407 First election held in Cass county, 58


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Dritt, William H., 840 Drompp, Fred G., 989


Dry Business Men's Association, 225 Dryest summer, 296 Dunkard church, 547 Dunkard Church Conservatives, 471 Dunkards, 439, 558, 644 Dunn, Arthur E., 748 Dunn, James W., 113 Dykeman, David D., 117


Earlham College, 5 Early printing presses, 262 Early teachers, 91 Easton, 698 East Sandridge cemetery, 671 East, Thomas L., 865


Ebenezer English Lutheran church, 545 Eel River, 9, 62


Eel River Bend, Logansport (view), 354 Eel River Division of Vandalia, 201 Eel township-mention, 10, 65; schools, 383


Eighteenth street bridge, 208 Eighty-third Indiana Regiment, 165 Eighty-fifth Indiana Regiment, 165 Eighty-seventh Indiana Regiment, 166 "Eighty Years Ago, " 42


Fair View United Brethren church, 489 Fansler, Michael L., 900


Departure of the Forty-sixth from Camp Logan, 148


Description of Logansport in 1838, 330 De Soto, 1


"Deutsche Zeitung," 267


D-Handle factory, 352


Dillman cemetery, 473


Dillman, William H., 1081


Fenton, Carrie B., 742


Fenton, Charles O., 742


. Dorner Truck and Foundry Company, 348 Douglass, Albert H., 1170


Fernald, Willmont L., 1058


DeMotte's Defeat, 279 Deniston, James M., 882


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First election under the state constitu- tion, 2 First enlisted man, 140 First foundry, 334 First glee club, 257 First grand jury, 99 First hat factory, 334 First hewed log tavern in Cass county, 323


First hospital in America, 403


First hospital in Indiana, 404


First hospital in Logansport, 404


First hospital in the United States, 403 First hospital in the world, 403


First hotel, 218


First house in the present limits of Indianapolis, 3 First Indiana poem, 227 First jury trial, 100 First license to run a store, 59


First medical college in Indiana, 404


First medical college in the United States, 404 First mill in Cass county, 212 First newspaper in Indiana, 262 First newspaper in Logansport, 263 First official seal of the Cass circuit court, 99 First of many things local, 316


First piano, 256


First postoffice, 384


First railroad in Indiana, 8 First Republican Ticket in Indiana, 276 First road petition, 61


First roads, 191


First rural mail route, 385


First school, 377 First settlement in Virginia, 1 First tax levy, 61


First temperance movement in Cass county, 223


First term of commissioners' Court, 58 First territorial legislature, 2


First treaty with the Indians, 36


First white men on Indiana soil, 1


First Baptist Church of Galveston, 598


First Presbyterian church, 425


First Market House, Blown Down 1845 (view), 339 Fitch, Dr. Graham N., (portrait), 406 Fitch's Glen (view), 658


Fitzer private cemetery, 549 Fitzer, Willard C., 1013 Five octogenarians (portrait), 614 Flanegin, John T., 817 Fletcher, Calvin, 112 Floods and ice gorges, 299 Flora and fauna, 20 Flory, Aaron, 862 Flory, Aaron M., 118 Flory, David, 1168 Flory, David M., 1168 Flory, Schuyler, 863 Flying machines, 206 Foglesong private burial place, 711 Forest Mill, Logansport (view), 213 Ford's Crossing Evangelical church, 669 Forgy, Churchill P., 767 Forgy, George B., 902


Ft. Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Company, 203 Forty-second Indiana Regiment, 163


Forty-sixth Indiana Infantry, 146, 163 Fourth and Broadway in the Sixties, Logansport (view), 332


Fourth street, Looking South (view), 345 Fouts, Finis E., 985


Franklin College, 4


Fraternal Order of Eagles, 396 Frazee, Moses R., 824


Free Masonry, 393, 464 "Freie Presse, " 268


Friendship Rebekah Lodge No. 504, 570 Frushour, Etta, 1071


Frushour, John A., 941


Frushour, Robert F., 938


Fry graveyard, 628 Fultz, Harry, 815 Funk, Horace M., 837


Furniture Factory, 215


Galbreath, John, 1094 Galloway, Henry, 133


Galveston-schools, 595; town, 608; first mechanics, 608; first industries, 609; incorporation, 609; lodges and socie- ties, 610; postoffice, 610; bands, 612. "Galveston Weekly Times, '' 271 Galveston High school (view), 595


Galveston United Brethren church, 596


Galveston Universalist church, 599


Galveston Methodist Episcopal church, 597 Galveston Cemetery Association, 603


Galveston City Band, 612


Gardner, Harry M., 740


G. A. R. Quartette, 188, 258


G. A. R. Quartette (portrait), 189


German Baptist or Dunkard cemetery, 563 German Evangelical cemetery, 625


German Lutheran school, 96


German Press, 267


Generals, 290


Georgetown, 626


Georgetown Bridge, 209


Georgetown cemetery, 625


Georgetown Concrete Bridge (view), 209


Gibson, William J., 1036


Ginseng factory, 319


Gish, James G., 1171 Godfrey, Francis, 31


Godfrey, Gabriel, Last Chief of the Miamis (portrait), 32


Goodrich, W. J., 1047


Good Templars, 589 Gore, Everett R., 1112


Gospel Temperance Union, 224


Gotshall, H. Harvey, 811


Governors of Indiana, 2


Grable cemetery, 472 Grace Evangelical church, 514 Graded schools, 92


Grand Army of the Republic, 188, 509, 589, 611, 654 Grant, William J., 1023


Gravel roads, 194


Graves, Anna Lucy, 795


Graves, Charles W., 794 Graves, Pliny A., 1092


Gray, Andrew, 1001


Gray, Harry, 1102 Gray, William R., 1039 Great fires, 318


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Great flood of 1913, 300 Great historic floods and storms, 307 "Greenbacker, The, "' 268 Greenback Party, 274 Grube, The A. Co., 1182 Grube, August, 1182


Grusenmeyer, Anthony, 1132 Guard, John W., 823 Gugle, John J., 1141 Guthrie, Frank V., 1003 Guthrie, John, 117 Guthrie, Robert, 806


Habits, customs and peculiarities of Indiana, 29


Hahn or Anoka cemetery, 709


Hall's Business College, 95


Haney, William E., 751


Haney, William W., 749


Hannagan, Edward A., 112


Hanover College, 4 Harmar, General, 31


Harness cemetery, 564


Harness, Frank, 1153


Harness George W., 614


Harper, Braden F., 1185


Harper cemetery, 670


Harrington, Ormus L., 1157 Harrison Guards, 159


Harrison murder trial, 102


Harrison. township-mention, 10, 63, 64, 572; boundaries, 572; first settlers, 572; organization, 573; industries, mills, factories, 574; roads, railroads, telephones, 574; postoffice, 575; schools, 575; churches, 577; trustees, 577; cemeteries, 583; physicans, 586; towns and villages, 587; lodges and societies, 589; Abraham Skinner school fund, 590; accidents, 590


Harrison, Gen. William Henry, 37, 127, 222, 290; first governor, 2 Hartsville University, 6


Hebrew cemetery, 446


Heffley, William, 1136


Heinmiller, J. E., 1153


Helms, John J., 1072 Helm, T. B., 387 Helvie, Samuel S., 934


Henry, James A., 1088 Heppe Soap Factory, 350


Herman City, 712


Hermann, Francis J., 967 Hermann, John, 966 Hertsell, J. E., 842


Hetherington, John P., 959 Higgins, James A., 838


High School, Logansport (view), 382 High school papers, 267 Hildebrandt, John J., 765 Hildebrandt, Katherine, 766 Himmelberger, Catherine H., 823 Himmelberger, Isaac, 822 Historic willow tree, 315 Hoffman, Samuel P., 1043 Hoffmann, George W., 763 Holiness Christian church, 439 Hollis, William, 1041 Holloway, William A., 1120 Holy Angels' Academy, 97 Home for Feeble Minded, 7 Home for the Friendless, 72


Home Telephone Company, 575 Honey Creek church, 558 Hoosier Bank, 364


Hoover, 465


Hoover, Adelbert L., 847


Hoover cemetery, 562


Hoover's bridge, 209


Hoover's Methodist Episcopal church, 471 Hooverville, 652


Horn, Levi B., 972


Horney creek mill, 215


Horney family burial ground, 671


Horney, James, 814


Horticulture, 86 Horticultural societies, 87


Hotels or taverns, 218


Houk private cemetery, 627


House of Refuge, 7


House, Walter A., 1146


Howe handle factory, 336


Howe, Catherine, 759


Howe, Samuel E., 758


Hubler, George G., 1164


Huffman, M. H., 1160


Hummel, John J., 852


Hunter family burial place, 711


Hurd, David P., 961


Hursh, Samuel, 995 Hyatt, Robert C., 1091


Hyatt, William R., 1109


Hyers family burial ground, 647


Hynes, John, 1012


Ice gorge (view), 299 Ide, Cassius M., 929 Improved Order of Red Men, 396, 611 Incidents of great flood, 306


Incidents of pioneer schools, 528


Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 394, 464, 509, 569, 611, 654, 696, 713 Independent Order of Odd cemetery, 604. Fellows


Independent Order of Foresters, 396


Indian anecdote, 311


Indian burial customs, 493


Indian burial ground, 445, 614, 648


Indian Creek Christian Church cemetery, 585


Indian Creek Christian (Disciple)


church, 580


Indian Creek Presbyterian cemetery,


584 Indian Creek Presbyterian church, 578 Indian depredations, 55 Indian in hollow tree, 314


Indians, 27


Indians and Pioneers (view), 44 Indian trails, 191


Indiana admitted to the Union, 2


Indiana Boundaries, 1


Indiana Business College, 96


Indiana Legion, 159


Indiana Lumber Company of Galveston, 1112


Indiana State University, 4 Industrial schools, 93


Interurban car lines, 204


Jack Conner tomb, 474, 671 Jack Conner's tomb (view), 457


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Jackson township-mention, 10, 66, 592;


first settlers, 592; location, 592; organization, 593; industries, mills, 594; schools, 594; churches, 596; ceme- teries, 600; physicans, 604; roads, 607; towns, 608; lodges and societies, 610; reference biographies, 613 Jails, 66


James, Charles E., 881


Jameson, David N., 980


Jefferson township-mention, 10, 63, 64, 616; boundaries, 616; first settle- ment, 616; mills and industries, 618; organization, 618; churches, 620; ceme- teries, 623; schools, 628; towns and villages, 630; physicans, 631; roads and general improvements, 632; mis- cellaneous incidents, 633; reference biographies, 634 Jenkins, David P., 115


Jerolaman, George M., 1193


Jeroleman vault, 442 .


"Job's Folly,'' 220


John Davis private burial place, 564 John Miller carding machine, 522


Johnson Harry C., 1056


Johnson, James G., 998 Johnston, John M., 757


Johnston, Robert F., 757


Joint representatives, 80


Jonathan Washington mill, 520


Jones, Abraham L., 901


Jones, Harry C., 831


Jones, Mrs. Solomon, 771


Judge Biddle's Island Home, Logans- port (view), 245


Judges of the appellate court, 292


Judges of the Cass circuit court, 106


Judges of the court of common pleas, 110


Judges of the. federal court, 292 Judges of the probate court, 110


Judges of the supreme and appellate courts, 111


Judges of the supreme court, 292 Julian burial ground, 492, 535 Justice, DeWitt C., 117 Justice; James M., 117


Justice, Jerome, 1014


Kaufman, Louis, 871 Keesling, Benjamin, F. 799 Keip, John G., 897 Keiser, William, 869 Kemp family burial ground, 602 Kendall, John W., 892


Kepner, Samuel, 614 "Key to Truth," 269 King Drill Company, 337 Kinzie, C. T., 1075 Kistler, Ira A., 1044 Kistler, John W., 1185 Kistler, Thomas J., 1044 Kitchel, Emerson, 1086 Klepinger, William A., 1031 Kline, John S., 804 Kline, Slate, 804 Klinsick, Frederick H., 1142 Knights and Ladies of Honor, 396 Knights of Honor, 396 Knights of Maccabees, 397, 509, 589, 698


Knights of Pythias, 395, 509, 569, 611 Knights of the Golden Circle, 464


Know-Nothing or American Party, 274 Kroeger, Bernard A., 1182


Labor organizations, 399 Labor Party, 274


Lairy, John S., 110, 798


Lairy, Moses B., 110, 111, 797


Lake Cicott, 9, 631


Lake Cicott Methodist Episcopal church, 623 Lakes, 9


Lake, William B., 1084 .


Land cessions and treaties, 35


Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 111


Largest dam in the world, 217


LaRose, John M., 828


La Rose, Noah S., 1204


Lasselle, Charles B., 114; (portrait), 115


Lasselle, Jaques M., 115 Law firms in 1912, 124


Leedy family burial ground, 711


Leffel, Edman A., 1090


Leffel private burial ground, 689


Legend of Cedar Island, 313


Leonard, John L., 1138


Letter from the front, 153


Lewisburg, 651


Lewisburg bridge, 208 Liberty church, 515


Lienemann, Julius F., 1066 Lincoln, 612


Lincoln Circle No. 1 of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, 189


Lincoln Methodist Episcopal church, 599 Lincoln School, erected 1874 (view), 381 Linton, George A., 818


List of county officers from 1829 to 1912, 76


List of deceased and transient doctors, Logansport, 413


List of examiners and county superin- tendents, 94 Literature and writers, 227


Little Deer Creek Onward United Brethren churches, 686


Little Deer Creek, Thomas or Onward cemetery, 689 Little, Harry N., 854


Little, James W., 1029


Little, John A., 1030


"Little Turtle, "' 31


Living physicians of Logansport, 418 Lobaugh or Wattsbaugh private ceme- tery, 626 Local casualties, 318


Local Incidents of war times, 185


Local men of state or national fame, 290


Local Military Companies, 134


Lock mill, 213


"Logan Chief, The, " 269


Logan Grays, 134 Logan Guards, 159


Logansport-Mention, 10, first settlement, 322; orignal plat of, 324; naming the town, 324; settlers of 1828, 325; town incorporation, 326; city incorporation, 326; first mayor, 327; early merchants and buildings, 329; merchants of 1838, 329; description in 1838, 330; Fourth and Broadway in the '60s, 332; later


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merchants, 332; early industries and factories of the past, 334; first mill, 334; first foundry, 334; first hat fac- tory, 334; tannery, 335; cooperage, 335; spoke factory, 336; Howe handle factory, 336; Nash Lincoln foundry and Aldrich Woolen mill, 336; King Drill Company, 337; Old lock foun- dry, 337; Spiker and Harrison Mfg. Co., 337; wagon and carriage fac- tories, 337; pump factories, 338; granite works, 338; brewery industry, 338; old markets, 339; present busi- ness firms, 341; furniture dealers, 342; undertaking establishments, 342; druggists, 342; automobile dealers, 343; bicycle dealers, 343; livery and feed stables, 343; boot and shoe deal- ers, 343; jewelers, 343; wholesale grocers, 344; grain dealers, 344; prom- inent buildings and their location, 345; present industries, 347; fishing tackle and industry, 351; basket fac- tory, 352; gas works, 352; natural gas industry, 353; overall factory, 354; creamery, 354; ice cream factory, 355; monument and stone works, 355;


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355; lumber


355;


and mill industries, hat factory, 359; cigar factories, 359; broom factories, 360; banks and finance, 361; first bank, 364; city of bridges, 369; municipal affairs, 369; water works, 369; fire department, 371; fire alarm telegraph, 372; paid fire department, 372; some notable fires, 373; electric light, 373; police department, 374; streets, 374; city finances, 375; population, 375; city buildings, 375; parks, 376; schools, 377; postoffice, 384; postmasters, 384; offices of city from 1838 to 1912, 387; city officials, 1913, 391; societies, 393; clubs, 393; medicine and doctors, 403; first hospital, 404; first doctor, 407; list of deceased and transient doctors, 413; living physicians, 418; churches, 420; cemeteries, 443; reference bio- graphies, 454


Logansport and Wabash Turnpike, 194 Logansport and Western Gravel Road, 194


Logansport Banking Company, 366 Logansport branch of the State Bank of Indiana, 365


"Logansport Daily Advertiser, " 265


"Logansport Daily Democrat, " 265


"Logansport Daily Star," 270 "Logansport Daily Tribune," 271


Logansport Foundry Company and Western Motor Works, 348


Logansport Furniture Company, 357 Logansport Heating Company, 351 "Logansport Herald, " 264, 268 "Logansport Journal," 263




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